7'Scarlet: Common Route, Hino and Isora good endings

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7'scarlet(*) is a mystery m/f romance game written by Tomio Kanazawa, the producer of the Twin-Peaks-esque Deadly Premonition, for Otomate, makers of Hakuoki, Psychdelica of the Black Butterfly etc. The protagonist is investigating the disappearance of her brother in a small country town. It reminds me a little of Higurashi, with the whole Small Japanese Country Town With Dark Secrets And Lots of Cicadas thing. But fluffier/less violent, with cute boys to kiss instead of cute girls with knives.

(*)Note: I just watched the Steam trailer and it's a bit spoilery

The game has some typical Otomate hallmarks but is also it's own thing, with lots of mystery tropes. So far I'm moderately enjoying it despite some silly plot elements. The PC port has some bugs and tends to crash a bit, so far it's not too bad as long as I save frequently.

I want to get my thoughts on the mystery in order before I move onto the next tier of love interests. Right now I've just played the good endings for the two love interests you can access at the start:

Hino Kagutsuchi: Childhood bff. Cute friends to lovers.
Isora Amari: A cheerfully flirty younger guy. Relatively fluffy yandere/obsessive.

Both guys are TOTALLY DEVOTED from the start, and super protective, I'm wondering if there'll be more variation with the others.

No real content notes for this post asides from some general discussion of consent issues in otome. The routes have some violence, and according to a spoiler I saw one of the later routes has a common trigger, which I will go into in my next post. There's vaguely described animal harm on the Isora route.
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7scarlet masterlist

7'scarlet(*) is a mystery m/f romance game written by Tomio Kanazawa, the producer of the Twin-Peaks-esque Deadly Premonition, for Otomate, makers of Hakuoki, Psychdelica of the Black Butterfly etc. The protagonist, Ichiko, is investigating the disappearance of her brother in a small country town.

(*)Note: the Steam trailer is a bit spoilery
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We are trialling a new cat!

Here's her page on the SAFE website.

She's very sweet so far. She and Bing are...not super happy about each other's existence, even with a closed door between them, but hopefully will chill out over time.

Getting a cat through SAFE was pretty great: we got to hang out with Arleta (who we are thinking of naming Darcy) and her siblings and chat with their carer about her personality and stuff. They were all adorable and I feel like a MONSTER from taking her away from her siblings but she seems to have settled in ok and has been getting lots of snuggles. We have 2 weeks to see if she and Bing get along, if not we get our money back and she is sent to a new home.

7'Scarlet: Toa good ending

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So obviously I had to go after the shy nerdy guy who likes cats at the first opportunity. You can only do his route after completing Hino and Isora, and here we are! It was pretty cute. He gets more self confident over the route but it doesn't do the Becoming A Real Man thing, he remains sweet and a bit awkward. It was enjoyably ungendered compared to the previous two needing to be The Man all the time.

Content note: None for the route itself. But I learned a spoiler about a later route which is a common trigger, and will come up in my thoughts going forward. I'll put it under it's own cut, with as few spoilers as possible.
( Spoilery content note discussion )

( My reactions to the Toa route )